Train Suicide

[katofumiko45]

Anyone else considering suicide by train, specifically freight trains in North America?

Im considering just laying down on the tracks in an isolated area during night time, making sure my ID is on me in case I become unrecognizable.

The rate of success for this method is almost as high as firearms, so it is pretty reliable.

 

[NearlyIrrelevantCake]

It's a shitty, selfish, unethical method, IMO. You're going to traumatize the engineer, if not anyone else who happens to be in the area. You could cause them lifelong trauma and even make them kill themselves.

 

[onyx559]

I have tried to ctb with a train. I stood in front of it instead of laying down (hence why I am still here) but trains have very bright lights on it and I feel like they would see something obstructing the rail and would slow down. I don't know if they would do it in time but it just seems like something that could possibly happen.

Editing to add it was a freight train in the pnw

 

[katofumiko45]

I have tried to ctb with a train. I stood in front of it instead of laying down (hence why I am still here) but trains have very bright lights on it and I feel like they would see something obstructing the rail and would slow down. I don't know if they would do it in time but it just seems like something that could possibly happen.

Editing to add it was a freight train in the pnw

What happened exactly? did you just get off the tracks in time?

 

[itsgone2]

A freight train depending on speed needs miles to slow down. So not a factor if you just don't give them the time.

 

[onyx559]

What happened exactly? did you just get off the tracks in time?

No, I actually got hit and flew a couple feet away. I ended up in the hospital for a few months (and obviously psych ward after) I broke my arm, I broke my hip, I broke my leg and I fractured my spine. I now have a titanium rod in my leg and my arm. I just feel like I would've been more successful if I was horizontal instead of vertical.

 

[katofumiko45]

No, I actually got hit and flew a couple feet away. I ended up in the hospital for a few months (and obviously psych ward after) I broke my arm, I broke my hip, I broke my leg and I fractured my spine. I now have a titanium rod in my leg and my arm. I just feel like I would've been more successful if I was horizontal instead of vertical.

Have you ever described this experience in detail somewhere? Sorry but it seems a bit hard to believe

 

[onyx559]

Have you ever described this experience in detail somewhere? Sorry but it seems a bit hard to believe

I did explain it in detail in another thread a few years ago but here's my mychart from the hospital

 

[itsgone2]

I did explain it in detail in another thread a few years ago but here's my mychart from the hospital

That is quite a list. Do you have physical issues now? I can't believe you survived that. This is everyone's fear.

 

[katofumiko45]

I did explain it in detail in another thread a few years ago but here's my mychart from the hospital

Wow im sorry for having doubted it! Did you get knocked off the tracks? Or did you get knocked backwards and had the train go over you? And how fast do you think the train was moving?

 

[Sleipnir95]

Anyone else considering suicide by train, specifically freight trains in North America?

Im considering just laying down on the tracks in an isolated area during night time, making sure my ID is on me in case I become unrecognizable.

The rate of success for this method is almost as high as firearms, so it is pretty reliable.

I'm in north america and indeed when I see a freight train my first thought is laying under the wheels. However I wouldn't lay on the tracks I have always planned to quickly place my neck under one of the cars before the back wheels pass rather than the front of the train. Sorry you feel this way

 

[onyx559]

Wow im sorry for having doubted it! Did you get knocked off the tracks? Or did you get knocked backwards and had the train go over you? And how fast do you think the train was moving?

So I was actually walking back to my car because I didn't think I was going to do it. And then I heard another train coming and thought to myself if not now then when. So when the train got closer to me, that's when I stood in front of the train on the tracks. I'm assuming it was going it's normal full speed, but when the train hit me, I flew forward and to the left off the side of the track. In movies when someone gets hit by a car and they fly forward? that's what happened. It would've been nice if I had flew forward and onto the tracks because then the train wouldve gone over me, but I'm not that lucky

That is quite a list. Do you have physical issues now? I can't believe you survived that. This is everyone's fear.

Everything was pretty much "fixed" because I had to do physical therapy for a long time. The only noticeable issues would be that my hip is still deformed, I can't raise my arm that high up, and instead of my foot facing forward when I walk it goes out to the right. But since I mostly wear sweatpants and hoodies, nobody can see the scars and can tell that I went through something like that. I just seem like a normal functioning person.


Some photos in case you were curious

 

[kajal]

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